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A website that focuses on high school sports in northern Indiana and goes beyond game coverage -- tackling timely topics and issues that matter to competitors as well as administrators, coaches and fans -- was selected as the winner of a national award administered by the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism at Penn State.

Research by more than a dozen students -- with topics ranging from race relations to sports media and the work of travel bloggers to agenda-setting and the framing of news -- will be featured in the inaugural Undergraduate Symposium coordinated by the College of Communications. The session, scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. on March 27 in Carnegie Cinema, includes the individual work of 14 students.

Two Penn Staters, a recent graduate and a senior in the College of Communications, will be broadcasting the PIAA Team Wrestling Championships for an outlet with national reach Feb. 5-7 from the Giant Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

Students in the College of Communications at Penn State will get valuable, hands-on work experience in the entertainment capital of the world with the launch of the Penn State Hollywood Program next spring.

Thanks to a forward-thinking effort involving ComRadio, some championship-caliber coaches and a group of committed and talented undergraduate students, some aspiring sports broadcasters at Penn State are getting unparalleled coaching.

A respected journalist has been selected to serve as a visiting journalism professor at Penn State during the spring 2015 semester through a program funded by the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation at Arizona State University.

A free public panel discussion focusing on digital journalism with two Penn State alumni and the publisher of the Centre Daily Times will be conducted at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12, in John Bill Freeman Auditorium, located in the HUB-Robeson Center.